LGBT

As people are sifting through stories about four same-sex Montana couples suing in federal court to overturn Montana's ban on same-sex marriage, the Vigilante would like to take this opportunity to endorse the right of all consenting adults to choose whether they will or will not marry...

Lest ye be judged: Former state Supreme Court justice wins national award for LGBT legal advocacy
Recently retired Montana Supreme Court Justice James Nelson stirred up a small hornet's nest with today's op-ed in the Billings Gazette challenging those who think religion gives them first amendment rights...

December will likely produce an answer as to whether the proposed non-discrimination ordinance will pass in Helena. We do not know exactly what the final language will be, of course, but this paper supports the basic precepts of the ordinance as drafted so far, and its spirit.
The most substantive...

The city of Helena is poised to start the public-hearing process for a local anti-discrimination ordinance.
That simple sentence was 10 months in the making, but for some interested parties, it’s been more like decades.
The ordinance would make it illegal for people to discriminate against lesbian,...

A petition supporting an ordinance intended to protect LGBT people from discrimination in Helena has received more than 3,000 signatures since the ordinance first made news in November, but, as the number of supporters grows, so does the relatively small number of incidents in which opponents act uncivilly...

By the beginning of April, the city commission hadn’t yet seen a draft of a proposed non-discrimination ordinance intended to protect LGBT people, but two groups of citizens with opposing viewpoints had already come forward at meetings to offer commissioners advice about how, or how not, to move forward.
The...

A locally based human-rights group has begun preliminary outreach efforts aimed at amending Helena’s city ordinances so they will do what state law does not: explicitly protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people from discrimination.
Montana Human Rights Network successfully lobbied...

Tuesday's repeal of the U.S. military's controversial Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy may have seemed like distant news for many Helenans, but it was cause for the local LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community and friends to celebrate.
The celebration event, held at the Rialto,...